It’s true that this could lead to unintended consequences as humanity is directly experimenting with a complex balanced natural system. But another perspective is that we have already done/are doing exactly that by pumping CO2 into the atmosphere at rates that wouldn’t have happened in nature. I know “two wrongs don’t make a right”, but it’s perhaps worth considering the price of course correcting our already hugely impactful behaviours, as the butterfly had flown years ago.
Car panels are convex on nearly all other cars for very good reason. Flat panels are structurally susceptible to damages which wouldn’t mark a standard panel. Adding a highly reflective surface was another great move.
This has been normal/understood since pre-demo phases.
The "car youtuber" culture around shitting on this car is almost as laughable as the car itself.
I wonder what tests car companies generally do to predict how durable a style choice is (how scratches, corrosion, etc will impact the look). Protecting your brand is also about what people will see in the future, not just what is on the showroom now. If 5 years from now all of these vehicles look terrible that won't help sales for any of their models.
I know in the past they've looked at data from used cars, and they also have HALT/HASS (highly accelerated life/stress) testing which does things like e.g. spray the car with concentrated salt solution in a wind tunnel, things like that.
I believe many manufacturers also look at data from people like Munro & Associates who tear down cars, figure out what they're made from, and how they were made.
You ever notice how all cars look like all the other cars? There's rarely an exception, they mostly just copy each other. They seem to stick to a design, then someone makes an enormously brave move of slightly changing some small thing, and next year they all copy it.
This is really interesting work, congratulations! A lot of negativity in the comments seems to stem from cynicism around doctors and their billing, but in a country like the UK I know removing essentially "admin tasks" from the GP would be very welcome and give time back to the clinician, allowing them to spend more time focussing on the patient and outcomes.
Great answer. Imbuing a deep learning model with well thought out inductive biases is one of the strongest ways of guiding your model to interpret the data the way you want it to. Otherwise it’s kind of shooting in the dark and hoping to get lucky.
I can’t stand it when people lazily personify ML models, but it’s akin to giving someone with no experience some wood and then pointing to a shed and saying “make one of those from this”. Instead you’d expect them to be much more successful if you also give them a saw, a drill, some screws etc.
If anything, you might be thankful of a full suspension mountain bike on some of our "gravel" trails in the UK. There's such a wide range from US-style back county roads all the way to bridleways with baby-head sized rocks that you probably wouldn't want to be riding on something typically sold as a gravel bike.
Yes, this. There's actually not that much US-style "gravel" in England and Wales: basically a few Forestry Commission tracks in mid-Wales, Northumberland and places like that. Elsewhere it's single-track bridleways that dominate. Routes like King Alfred's Way, the Pennine Bridleway, the Great North Trail and West Kernow Way are sometimes marketed as gravel routes but they're probably more MTB than anything.
I spent a month in the UK and was glad to have brought my CX bike instead of my road bike. Several of the routes (in Kent) that I had thought were going to be road routes suddenly turned into paths that we would classify as gravel here in the states. It was wonderful! So little traffic and not one F350.
